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CAPTTAL STIRRED BY LAMAR STORY Hew York Broker Admits Having r>y:«* MQDIRY PiiMNED BY HOUSE 4Lamar Telle Amazing Story of His Activities in Lobby Work--$82,- (KKMMO Fraud In Union Pa- elflo Is Charged. Washington, July 5.--Extraordinary developments occurred in -the lobby Situation in the house representa­ tives and before the senate lobby 4JOnxmlttee. They were: A braien confession by *)ne David lamar, who admitted this name tc be an alias, and who described himself as a New York operator in stocks, that he had impersonated members Of congress in behalf of the employ- .meet of Edward Lauterbach, a New York lawyer, to prevent national legislation hostile to big financial in­ terests. A detailed charge by Lamar that the Union Pacific company's books had been forged in 1901 on an item covering $82,600,000, one of the re- cults of which, he alleged, was that Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and the late E. H. Harrlman amassed enormous fortunes. Denials by Congressmen Sherley of Kentucky, Calder of New York, Webb Of North Carolina, and Bartholdt of Missouri on the' floor of the house of representatives that they had had any connection whatsoever with or that they had been controlled or influenced In the slightest degree by the National Association of Manufacturers or its •gents. Demands by these congressmen and Others for an Immediate investigation Of the Mulhall revelations by a spe­ cial committee to be created by the bouse. Reference of these several resolu­ tions to the committee on rules, with Instructions to report a comprehen­ sive resolution on Saturday next call- lug for a thorough investigation of oil lobbying operations directed on members of the house. Witness Enjoys Own Tale. Lamar, or -whatever his real name " may be (and the committee proposes to force him to reveal it before he is Anally excused), deserves Btudy by psychological experts. As if he were telling a joke the whole country would relish he smilingly related his tele­ phone conversations with presidents Of and counsel for the Union Paciflc Railroad company, the Standard Oil Oompany, the United Cigars company, and others, all designed to bring about the employment of Lauterbach' as their legislative agent. At one time he said he was Con­ gressman Palmer, at another Con­ gressman Rlordan. Again he was Chairman McCombs of the national Democratic committee endeavoring to ttiake an arrangement with Chairman fillies of the Republican party to fcenefit through pressure on senators and congressmen the interests with Which Hillea now is associated. He Impersonated so many congress­ men that he could not remember them all. Claims He Aided Public. Rls sole motive, he claimed, was to Impress the big financiers with the ability of his friend Lauterbach. Nor was Mr. Lauterbach the sole benefi­ ciary of his philanthropic conduct. The American people, he declared, •were heavily In his debt, tor he had Caved them the tidy little sum of $30,- 4)00,000 in connection with the reorgan­ isation of the Union Paciflc in 1897. For this patriotic act he said that he •nd the late Russell Sage, with whom he co-operated, were denounced as a "pair ef conscienceless blackmail­ ers." But this was not all of Mr. Lamar's disinterested service for others. He told how James R. Keene and his son- in-law and some friends acquired $42,- •00,000 of the stock of the Union Pa­ ciflc, how he took measures to save them. H« told how "the golden moment" for which he was working arrived, and how Mr. Keene failed to grasp it when he told him to do so, with the Jesuit that Keene lost the greater part of his fortune, and the firm of Which Keene's son-in-law was the head cu forced to suspend. I Tells of "War" en Lauterboch. And then, touchingly, he described how J. Pierpont Morgan, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and E. H. Harriman, forced into consolidation of their interests by the panic of 1907, determined to starve Mr. Lauterbach out in the practice of his profession and bring about his os­ tracism from the business and profes­ sional world. The price of the withdrawal of their opposition was that Lauterbach should have nothing further to do with the witness, Lamar. Magnanimously La­ mar offered to release Lauterbach, but the latter magnanimously refused. "But, Mr. Chairman/' continued La­ mar, in the most convincing tone, "it was most distressing to me to see the mental condition of my friend, to see the low estate into which he was falling in the practice of his profes­ sion, and the curtailment of his in­ come. I would have done anything la my power to change that any to ame­ liorate those conditions. "I realise perfectly that I could not talk with these men directly. Their hatred and dislike of me was so bit- Overheard on the Train. "0, that's the oldest story in the world. Noah told it to his boys in the ark." ' "Yes, old chap; 1 know it's a chest- But; the1 only mw stories arp the ones you tell." "Well--er--it's a fact that I gener­ ally do get hold of the freshest ones." tar that Cher would not even confer with me oa any subject "And it is perfectly true, therefore, that for the purpose of endeavoring to restore the condition of former friend* ship and harmony that had existed be­ tween Mr. Lauterbach and the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Mr. Schiff, I did, using the names of other per* sons ,have a number of conversations 1 over tlie telephone with men con­ nected with the Union Pacific Com­ pany." Testimony Given by Lamar. Lamar, when he,first took the stand this morning, admitted he was the man mentioned in the testimony of Robert S. Lovett as having called Wall street financiers on the telephone and Impersonated congressmen. He then gave a history of his al­ leged dealings with financiers and rail­ road magnates. In 1897, he said, the late Russell Sage authorised him to proceed to compel the Union Paciflc to pay the government $58,000,000 in bonds owing it. Lamar, with Senator Foraker, came to Washington and con­ ferred with President McKinley. "We were charged with being a pair of conscienceless blackmailers," La­ mar said, "but that had no effect on us." When Sage retired from business in 1901, on Sage's recommendation, Lamar said/- he became associated' wjth James R Keene. Lamar said he warned Keene, when the latter was buying Unidn Pacific stock, that the railroad would ruin him to get re­ venge for Lamar's previous activity. He detailed how, when Keene and his associates had $43,000,000 In Union Pa­ cific, he took steps to enjoin the voting of certain stock so that B. H. Harri­ man would be compelled to buy Keene's stock at a high figure. With Keene's approval he retained Lauterbach's law firm and paid $25,000. Lauterbach and Lamar came to Washington, paid Foraker a fee, and engaged him. When the Injunction was finally de­ cided against Keene Union Pacifio went down and Keene and his friends lost most of their fortunes. Tells of Phone Talks. "As the result of the panic of 1907," said Lamar, "Harriman, Kuhn, Loeb A Co., the National City bank, and Morgan & Co. became bound together as with an Iron band." "For the purpose of doing my friend, Lauterbach, a service," he said, "and to restore him to his former friendly relation with Kuhn. Loeb & Co., Jacob Schiff and the Union Paciflc officials, and others, dldL, have conversations with Union Paciflc officials, and in, those conversations I did use the names of other persons. But there was no suggestion of a fee to Mr. Lauter­ bach. On the strength of these tele­ phone messages Mr. Lovett came here and charged that Edward Lauterbach had tried to blackmail him." The Lauterbach1 Incident, added, "paled into insignificance," oompared with an $82,000,000 forgery which he alleged was committed on the Unioa Paciflc books in 1901. "I dont know who did it," said La- mar, "the chairman of the board os the office boy, but I do know this $82,- 000,000 was the fulcrum which enabled Harriman and Kuhn, Loeb ft Co. to gain control of these corporations." Tells Story of "Forgery." He described a doub«e entry of $81,- 000,000 representing securities the Union Paciflc assumed In taking over the Oregon Short Lln« and the Ore­ gon Railway and Navigation company. The items, he said, were carried in the "consolidated balance * sheet" of the Union Paciflc June 30, 1900, but between that time and June 30, 1901, he alleged, some one had erased the $82,000,000 item from one side of the ledger, leaving it as a credit balanoe on the other side. "They took all the securities of ths Oregon Short Line and the Oregon Railway and Navigation," he said, "and used them as security for an is- sue of bonds. They got that money and used it to finance the deal for the Northern Paciflc and Great Northern transactions and the flotation of Great Northern Ore properties, which they sold out at an enormous profit." .Later, Lamar alleged, the principals in the transaction went to Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and secretly got nearly $200,- 000,000, which he believed was for their own use. Denial Made by Cravath. Immediately after Lamar had fin­ ished this phase of the story, Paul D. Cravath of counsel for the Ungon Pa­ cific railroad put in this reply: "In view of the statement regard­ ing the account of the Union Pacifio Railroad company which David Lamar has gone out of his way to make be­ fore this committee, and. Inasmuch as persons not familiar with David La­ mar's character, who may read this statement In the newspapers, may be misled thereby. I deem it my duty to make the following statement for the records of the committee: "For several days persons con­ nected with the Union Pacific Rail­ road company have been in­ formed that an effort was being made to circulate and secure publication of a prepared story about an alleged fSlsification of the accounts of the Union Paciflc company involving $70,000,000 or $80,000,000 of Its suit plus. "We were Informed, In substance, that this story was so palpably false and scandalous and so plainly offered for an Improper purpose, that the newspapers would not publish it In­ formation then came that the story would soon be made public in such a way that the newspapers would have to publish it "It now appears that the medium for the publication of this story was to be this man David Lamar, who has confessed himself to be the most un­ conscionable of liars of modern times." Alps' Toll of Human Life. Aboht 1,000,000 tourists visit the Alps each year, of whom about 24 ftara Avis. "A liveable fellow, Wigley. Every­ body seems to have a good word fon him. What do you suppose is the secret charm about him that attracts so?" a "Oh, I dunno. Maybe it's because he's one of the common people and is always so modest about tt" I •.ft;.; Prison Mission's Good The English prison mission every Christmas sends out 40,000 personal letters'to In mats#. Jails. " . ,..A !";.•• • MEAD'S HEADQUARTERS AT GETTYSBURG VETERANS HEAR THE PRESIDENT Mr. Wilson Delivers Address at Gettysburg Celebration, DRAWS LESSON FROM BATTLE Declares Great Army of the People Must Fight Peacefully to Perfect the Nation All Love. Gettysburg, Pa., July 4.--National day In the seml-oentennlal celebration of the Battle of Gettysburg was made especially notable by an address de­ livered by President Woodrow Wilson. In his audience were many thousands of the veterans who fought in the great battle, as well as a great throng of other visitors. The president's address follows: Friends and Fellow Citizens: I need not tell you what the battle of Gettys­ burg meant These gallant men In blue and gray sit all about us here. Many of them met here upon this ground in grim and deadly struggle. Upon these famous fields and hillsides their comrades died about them. In their presence it were an Impertinence to discourse upon how the battle went how it ended, what it signified! But 50 years have gone by since then and I crave the privilege of speaking to you for a few minutes of what those 50 years have meant What have they meant? They have meant peace and union and vigor, and the maturity and might of a great na­ tion. How wholesome and healing the peace has been! We have found one another again as brothers and com­ rades in arms, enemies no longer, gen­ erous friends rather, our battles long past the quarrel fbrgotten--except that we shall not forget the splendid valor, the manly devotion of the men then arrayed againpt one another, now grasping hands an<l smiling into each other's eyes. How complete the union has become and how dear to all of us, how unquestioned, how benign and majestic, as state after state has been added to this great family of free men! How handsome the vigor, the maturity, the might of the great na­ tion we love with undivided hearta; how full of large and confident prom­ ise that a life will be wrought out that will crown Its strength with gra­ cious justice and a happy welfare that will touch all alike with deep contents menti We are debtors to those 60 crowded years; they have made us heirs to a mighty heritage. Nation Not Finished. But do we deem the nation com­ plete and finished? These venerable men crowding here to this famous field have set us a great example of devotion and utter sacrifice. They were willing to die that the people might yve. But their task is done. Their day Is turned Into evening. They look to us to perfect what they estab­ lished. Their work is handed on to us, to bd done in another way but not in another spirit. Our day is not over; it is upon us in full tide. Have affairs paused? Does the nation stand still? Is it what the 5o years have wrought since those days of battle finished, rounded out and completed? Here Is a great people, great with every force that has ever beaten In the life blood of mankind. And it Is secure. There is no one within its borders, there is no power among the nations of the earth, to make it afraid. But has it yet squared Itself with Its. own great standards set up at Its birth, when it made that first noble, naive appeal to the moral Judgment of mankind to take notice that a government had now at last been established which was to serve men, not masters? It 1b secure In everything except the satis­ faction that Its life is right adjusted to the uttermost to the standards of righteousness and humanity. The days of sacrifice and cleansing are not closed. We have harder things to do than were done in the heroic days of war, because harder to see Daredevil Photography. A naval photographer gets many duckings, and, after a time, takes them as a matter of course. Being thrown into the sea isn't considered by him at all a serious event It Is during battleship practice that he en­ counters grave dangers, for much of the work done at this time is from the tops of the fighting masts, which are at an elevation of 120 feet above the sea During different practices ,i '1iave , fake* «? ta pwfc piwiy to ~ V' )• • ;fHC, i clearly, requiring more vision, more calm balance of Judgment a more candid searching of the very springs of right. • Tribute to Their ValeK-. Look around you upon the field of Gettysburg! Picture the array, the fierce heats and agony of battle, col­ umn hurled against column, battery bellowing to battery! Valor? Yes! Greater no man shall see In war; and self-sacrifice, and loss to the utter­ most; the high recklessness of exalt­ ed devotion which does not count the cost. We are made by these tragio, epic things to know what it costs to make a nation--the blood and sacri­ fice of multitudes of unknown men lifted to a great stature in the view of all generations by knowing no limit to their manly willingness to serve. In armies ,thus marshaled from the ranks of free men you will see, as it were, a nation embattled, the leaders and the led, and may know, if you will, how little except in form Its action differs In days of peace frqm Its action in days of war. May we break camp now and be at ease? Are the forces that fight tor the Nation dispersed, disbanded, gone to their homes forgetful of the common cause? Are our forces disorganised, without constituted leaders and the might of men consciously united be­ cause we contend, not with armies, but with principalities and powers and wickedness In high places. Are we content to lie still? Does our union mean sympathy, our peace content­ ment, our vigor right action, our ma­ turity self-comprehension and a clear confidence in choosing what we shall do? War fitted us for action, and no­ tion - never ceases. Our Laws the Orders of the Day. I have been chosen the leader of the Nation. I cannot justify the choice by any qualities of my own, but so it has come about, and here 1 stand. Whom do I command? The ghostly hosts who fought upon these battle­ fields long ago and are gone? These gallant gentlemen stricken in years whose fighting days are over, their glory won? What are the orders for them, who rallies them? I have in my mind another host, whom these set free of civil strife lu order that they might work out In days of peace and settled order the life of a great nar tion. That host is the people them­ selves, the great and the small, with­ out class or difference of kind of race or origin; and undivided in inter­ est, If we have but the vision to guide and direct them and order their lives aright In what we do. Our constitu­ tions are their articles of enlistment The orders of the day are the laws upon our statute books. What ws strive for is their freedom, their right to lift themselves from diy to day and behold the things they have hoped for, and so make way for still better days for those whom they love who are to come after them. The recruits are the little children crowding in. The quartermaster's stores are in the mines and forests and fields, in the shops and factories. Every day some­ thing must be done to push the cam­ paign forward; and tt must be done by plan and with an eye to some great destiny. How shall we hold such thoughts in our hearts and not be moved? I would not have you live even today wholly in the past but would wish to stand with you in the light that streams upon us now out of that great day gone by. Here is the nar tion God has builded by our hands. What shall we do with it? Who stands ready to act again and always In the spirit of this day of seunion and hope and patriotic fervor? The day of our country's life has but broadened into morning. Do not put uniforms by. Put the harness of the present on. Lift your eyes to the great tracts of life yet to be conquered In the inter­ est of righteous peace, of that pros­ perity which lies in a people's hearts and outlasts all wars and errors of men. Come, let us be comrades and soldiers yet to serve our fellow men in quiet counsel, where the blare of trumpets Is neither heard nor heeded and where the things are done which blessed the nations of the world in peace' and righteousness and love. The New York, New Haven & Hart­ ford railroad has 21,716 stockholders, of whom 10,102 are women. order to get detailed pictures. Once In these basket-like tops, the question is how to stick. The gunfire photographs itself. I suppose you wonder what I mean, but it is just this: Kvery time the twelve-inch guns fire, the awful eoncu8sion they cause invariably gives the snap to the Bbutter of the camera and the exposure is made--rS»lnt Nich- RENEWJ1 RIOTS STRIKERS CONTINUE REIQN OF TERROR IN JOHANNESBURG-- TROOPS CHARGE MOBS. DEMAND GLADSTONE'S RECALL Government's Effort to Quiet Strike Disturbance In Gold District Inef- feetive--To Petition King to De­ pose Governor. Johannesburg, July t.--The strike among the gold miners in the Rand district, which the government ar­ ranged to settle with a committee, has proved ineffective. The mobs reassembled late Sunday. All trains and street cars suspended service, the crews refusing to work. No newspapers were able to issue edi­ tions. Additional troops guarded the Rand club, the scene of serious encoun­ ters Saturday. A great mob assembled there, hooting and jeering the troops. Up to midnight there had been no serious trouble, but armed police Everywhere were guarding property. Ask Gladstone Recall. The recall of the governor general Of the Union of South Africa, Viscount Gladstone, is demanded by the Feder- ated Trades Unions. At a meeting of the federation at Pretoria attended by 1,200 delegates it was unanimously re­ solved to petition the imperial govern­ ment to take this action because the governor general employed troops to suppress the strike. The opinion is very general that the government has made serious blunders throughout the present trying situa­ tion. When Gen. Louis Botha, the ex- premier of the Union of South Africa, and General Smuts, minister of the in­ terior, mines and defense, arrived at Johannesburg they were amazed at the strikers' organisation and the des­ perate spirit of the leaders. A great crowd of strikers wearing red badges surrounded the Carlton hotel while the terms of settlement were being arranged. When the strike leaders announced from the balcony that a settlement had been agreed to they were greeted to with shouts of "What about the dead?** "You've been bought." Except at the time of the Jameson raid in 1896 and the outbreak of the war in 1$99 this city has not experi­ enced such a day of terrorism as Sat­ urday. The mobs in the business sec­ tion caused less fear than desperados who were threatening to dynamite the homes of the wealthy. All places of business were closed and guarded by troops, while bands of citlsens armed with rifles patroled the . residential quarter. The rioting began when strikers forced their way Into the Rand club, whose members are mine owners. They demolished everything on the ground floor. Three times dragoons scattered the mob, but it quickly re­ formed. The troops fired a volley over the heads of the rioters and then two volleys directly into their ranks. The rioters fled, leaving be­ hind a large number of killed and wounded. JANET BEECHER IS WEDDED? Beautiful Belasco Star Refuses to Tell Her Friends Whethsr She Is s Bride. New York;, July 5.--Is Janet Beech- er, the beautiful Belasco star, stin Janet. Beecher, or Is she Mrs. Harry Guggenheimer? If she is not a "Mrs.," why not, and when Is she going to be­ come one? These questions Miss Beecher--or Mrs. Guggenheimer--re­ fused to answer, even when her friends besieged her for information. A week ago a marriage license was taken out for Harry Guggenheimer and Janet Beecher. Harry Guggenheimer, a young lawyer, admitted that he was to be the lucky one. He was to wed a Janet Beecher. byt further than that he would not say. Miss Beecher herself was silent The first university in ths German empire was at Prague, Bohemia, 1318.. •V *s. " - * " ' GIRL SUES GOVERNOR SULZER Miss' Mignon Hopkins Files 8uit Alleg­ ing Brssch of Promise Against New York Executive. Philadelphia, July 3.--Miss Mignon Hopkins, the daughter of a well-to-do Brooklyn attorney, now dead, entered suit in this city on Tuesday against Gov. William Sulzer of New York tot breach of promise. Miss Hopkins, who is one of three attractive sisters, stipulates the date of her engagement to the governor and in her claim says that she has endearing letters from him to show that he intended to make her his bride and that he jilted ber and married a Philadelphia woman in Atlantic City on January 8, 1908. Car Hits Auto; Three Di* Toledo, O., July 8--Three young women were killed and two others were injured at Munsingers crossing. n«»r here, when an auto in which they were riding was struck by a. Detroit and Toledo interurban car. Mrs. fclark Is Fourth Orator, Washington, July 5.--Mrs. Champ Clark, wtfe of the speaker, was the orator of the day at the Fourth of July celebration of the Jane MacAfee chapter, D. A. R. Mrs. Clark la a de­ scendant of Jane MacAfee. Gives $250,000 to Actress. London, England. July 5.--Two hun­ dred and fifty thousand dollars is the price the marquis of Northampton has Agreed to pay to settle the suit for breach of promise brought by the aetijss. Daisy Markham. 101 Dead From Heat. ' Chicago. July 3.--Sixteen additional deaths from the excessive heat, as reported by the coroner, brought the total to 101. In the list of heat vic­ tims were many Infants, particularly of the tenement districts. t»ee O'Nell Browne Wad#V>'; Ottawa, 111., July 3.--Representative Lee O'Nell Browne and Miss- Nellie Rlordan left for Chicago' Monday. It is supposed by relatives the mar­ riage took place shortly following the Issuance of the license. ' • • S4- • \ • ILLINOIS NEWS TERSELY TOLD Aurora.--*MIsb Lula Minot twenty years old, daughter of J. E. Minot a wealthy, retired merchant, was killed In a premature explosion of fireworks as the curtain dropped on a three-days' homecoming celebra­ tion here. The explosion occurred on the New York street bridge, a long span crossing the Fox river at its widest point. Not one of the thou­ sands on the bridge were seriously injured, although a score suffered minor hurts. Miss Minot was on an island In the river about 500 feet away and was killed by a skyrocket penetrating her heart- De Kalb. -- Robert Caughy was killed and Lee Hart seriously In­ jured when their automobile turned turtle near Malta. Both were from Dixon. An eye-witness says that the car was going 40 m&2e* an hour over a smooth road when the accident hap­ pened. Qulncy.--At the thirty-fourth an­ nual convention of the Illinois Pharmaceutical association Ralph E. Dorland of Springfield was chosen president The honor accorded Mr. Dorland is a double one, as he is the youngest president ever elected of the association. Bloomington. -- J. E. Sutton, a wealthy El Paso farmer, is touring central Illinois in sa automobile searching for his slxten-year-old daughter, Mary, who eloped with J. H. Merrick, a farm hand. Sutton of­ fers $600 for Information concerning the pair. Springfield.--David Ross, secretary of the Illinois bureau of labor statistics for sixteen years, ten­ dered his resignation to« Governor Dunne. No reason is given by Mr. Ross for quitting the state service. He is a Republican. Mount Sterling.--Otha Burnett, the seventeen-year-old son of Charles Burnett was drowned in Crooked creek while In swimming. It is supposed he was seized with cramps, as he was an excellent swimmer. Springfield.--The following mem­ bers of the state miners' examin­ ing board were named by Governor Dunne. There is one member yet to be appointed: Edward Maher, Lin­ coln, and Nicholas Cowell, Springfield. Peoria.--Mebel Warren, fourteen years Old, who lives with her mother on a cabin boat on ths Illinois river, looked Out of the win dow and saw three £ien struggling in the water on the opposite side of the river. She ran to the boathouse, got a boat from her brother and rowed across the river. She was JuSt in time to grasp one man who was sinking After helping him get a hold on the boat she reached down and grasped the other victim by the hair and held his head above water until they ar­ rived. Alex. AdamozkL fifteen years old, drowned before ths girl reached the spot •</ «•> -- Mendota.--One hundred and eighty- one barrels ? of beer of the de fuect Mendota Brewing company were poured into the Mendota river, owing to the brewery's failure to pay the tax. The result of this was thai thousands Of fish were killed besides many cattle which quaffed the mixed drink. The farmers threaten to sue the city for damages suffered through loss of stock. Qulncy.--Jacob Bennlng, a Greg­ ory (Mo.) farmer, shot and killed Squire Theodore, Pogue, at West Quincy, Mo., and then ended his own life. Ten years ago Pogue struck Ben­ nlng with a club and met for the first time since the feud, was renewed, end­ ing in a double killing. Pogue was seventy-eight years old. Bloomington. -- Dynamiters hays been at work killing the fish in the Salt Fork river In Vermilion coun­ ty. Thousands of dead fish have been found floating upon the surface, killed by the explosive. Game wardens are trying to locate those guilty. Carterville.--Fire starting in the bakery of A. Donald destroyed the shop, valued at $2,500; the J. W. freeman jewelry store, valued at $3,- 000; the Baker-Ghent stock, $10,000; building, $1,000; Benedict meat mar­ ket, stock damage, $200; building. $200. The fire was caused by a gaso­ line explosion. Peoria.--The Internal revenue col­ lections for the past fiscal year in the Peoria district amount to $34,000,994.53, a gain over the pre­ vious year of over $4,000,000. Ap­ proximately $32,000,000 of this amount represents the tax on alcoholic liquors manufactured in Peoria during the past year. Golconda.--Gapt. l&ward Hlnee of the steamboat W. C. Jutte, which tied up here, was found dead in his state­ room. _ Pana. -- A big machinery grain SnB stock barn on the Judge James McQulgg farm, northeast of Pana. was struck by lightning and burned, together with contents. George Roberts, a tenant lost 500. bushels of corn, a new' carriage, har­ ness, hay and farm implements. The damage was $5,000. McQulggs loss was covered by insurance Mt Vernon, 111. -- Mrs. Charles Beal died from Injuries received when a vehicle In which she was riding was struck by a fast pas­ senger train north of this city. A two- year-old son was killed and a four- year-old daughter had an arm cut off. RGHI OVER UHC0I1 VETERAN RE8ENTS SLUR 0N{ MARTYRED PRESIDENTS NAME | AT GETTYSBURG. 4 THREE RESCUERS MAY Danville.--Lulu Shumaker of Chi­ cago and Nellie Shane of Indi­ anapolis, held here in Jail on a charge of violating the Mann white •dave act by luring Dorothy Johnson, an Indianapolis girl, to thia Battle Occurs In s Hotel and Guests Fles in a Panic When Trouble 8tarts--Alleged Assailant Is Quieft*, ly Captured. Gettysburg, Pa., July 5.--Seven m^a were stabbed In a fight in the dining- room of the Gettysburg hotel as a re* suit of a fight started when several men aroused the anger of an old vet­ eran In blue by abusing Lincoln. Wednesday. Three of the wounded men are in a serious condition at the Pennsylvania State hospital. The state constabulary are making dee* nerate efforts to find the men who did the stabbing. •' • The wounded men are; Edward J. Carroll, sergeant of tfce quartermaster's corps, U. S. A. David Farbor of Butler, Pa., a mess* ber of the state constabulary. John D. Maugin, Harrisburg. Charles Susler of West Fairview. Pa. Malcolm Griffin of Bedford City, Pa. Hayder Renlsbecker, Gettysburg. Harry A. Root Jr., Harrisburg. Farbor, Maugin and Griffin are ta the most serious condition. Each was wounded in the left breast and the surgeons fear they will not recover. The fight started shortly before seven o'clock, when the dining-room was full, and caused a panic among the scores of guests. The veteran, who was unhurt and disappeared In the melee, was sitting near Farbor and Carroll when ha heard the slighting remarks about Lincoln. He jumped to his feet and began to- defend the martyred presi­ dent and berated his detractors. Tha men who were stabbed, according to the Information the surgeons gath­ ered Jumped to the defense of tho veteran whon the others closed in. Knives were drawn In a second and the room was thrown Into an uproar- Women fled for the doors and crowd­ ed to the windows ready to jump to the street below. It was all over be­ fore the other men in the room could act and the men responsible for Jt got out and away. The fight spurred the medical men again to an effort to have the Gettysburg saloons closed during the remainder of the celebra­ tion. mi IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS Chicago, July 2.--Chicago witnessed the largest suffrage parade in its his­ tory Tuesday when the suffragettes of Cook county, In honor of their eman­ cipation from the non-voting class, gave a monster demonstration of their approval of the new law giving wan- en the rights of suffrage. Starting from Grant 'Phrk, the km* line of automobiles, headed by a pla­ toon of police and the First Regiment' band, paraded the principal streets of the city, while admiring thousands along the line of march cheered them as they passed. Buffalo, N. Y., July S.--Three -motet men who were burned in the Husted mill explosion of a week ago died in the hospitals during the night and thlB morning, bringing the total known to be dead up to 22. The bodies of eight others are believed to be in the ruins. San Francisco, July 7.--As long sa Joe Rivers held the upper hand ha fought like a turk. When brave-heart­ ed Ritchie stemmed the tide and then turned it. the Los Angeles Mexican grew visibly discouraged. Joe fought several rounds with very little spirit and quit in the eleventh on Friday. The battle was fought under perfect weather conditions in the open and was witnessed by 7,000 persons. The receipts. It was said, aggregated $$®,- 000. M RAIL SITUATION- IS SERIOUS Canvass of Ballots by Eastern Unions Expected to Favor Suspension ei, Work--Msy Win Arbitration, ul' New York, *JuIy 7.--Thfre are roll more than 6,000 of the railroad em­ ployes' strike ballots to be canvassed by the general committees. Members of the committee left the city last week, but will return today to com­ plete the work. While neither President Lee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen nor President Garretson of the Railway Conductors has made any positive statement as to whether the vote will be for a strike, the representatirea of the railroads expect nothing elsa. Further conferences probably will follow the announcement qf the strika vote. Rifles Rake Streets. Johannesburg, July 8.--The strike which involved practically all the gold mines on the Rand has ended. Dur^ lng its brief existence anarchy reigned in the city. The casualties aro sett- mated at more than 100. Flyer Lands After Long Flight. Milwaukee, July 8.--Leaving Mil* kee, flying through the air during tha entire night. C. Livingston Wlggtna was unable to land until dawn, whsa he was within SO miles of his starting point Ask $10,000 to Return Girl. Youngstown, O., July 7.--Dams®d for $10,000 in ransom for Lena Gutre« rero, the beautiful seventeen-yearold girl who was kidnaped from Leetonla, 25 miles south of here, was made Oft the family in an anonymous letter. i" 5 Police Show Carnegie Paris. -IM Paris, July 7.--Andrew Carnegie ti 'rV',JV seeing Paris as he never saw tt b* fore. Escorted everywhere he gees by A two French gendarmes, Mr. Carnegie Iis visiting all the art gallertee aaA 'ft places of interest in the capital. -^ .... . » '* *."i" ^